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...Santander branch in Chile," says Davide Serra, head of the U.K.'s Algebris hedge fund. The system facilitates cross-selling to existing customers while allowing Santander to cut back-office staff drastically (Santander never cuts the flesh pressers out front). In Abbey's case, total employees dropped from 25,331 to 16,489, while costs have come down from 70% of income to around 40%, in line with Santander's overall cost-to-income ratio. The average cost-to-income ratio in this sector of the U.K. banking business is 55%. Those cost savings translate into lower lending rates, which...
...while most residential mortgages are chopped into securities and sold, the bulk of commercial mortgages - and virtually all land and construction loans - stay on banks' books. Banks have leeway to delay recognizing losses on these loans - that is, they don't have to "mark to market." With banks facing total commercial real estate losses of $200 billion to $300 billion or more by Parkus' estimate, regulators have so far encouraged banks to exploit that leeway. (See the financial crisis after one year...
Harvard saw more success in the second of these, as it held Brittney Smith, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, to six points, and the Smith sisters to a combined total of eight. But the Big Green found offense from other sources, namely Sasha Dosenko and Faziah Steen, who combined for 21 points. A Steen layup early in the second half gave Dartmouth an imposing 11-point lead...
University of Vermont also had a strong showing at the competition, finishing second overall and taking the top two spots in the Men’s Giant Slalom. Harvard senior Christopher Kinner came in 32nd place with a total time of 2:07:49, almost eight seconds behind first place. The Catamounts also took the top spot in the women’s version of the event, while the Crimson’s top finisher was junior Margie Thorp in 37th place with a time...
...economic growth rate (it has now backed down to 7%) helped usher in a herd of multiplexes - and new profits for U.S. players. American studios now estimate that 65% of their earnings come from screenings at multiplexes. Hollywood films, which only cashed in on 1% of the total Indian market 10 years ago, now skim 7% of that growing market...